Elections 2012: BFP Watch Party

Gráinne · 11-06-2012, 08:49 PM

I didn't know this:

President Barack Obama's victory in Paul Ryan's home state of Wisconsin and his easy win in Mitt Romney's base of Massachusetts means the 2012 Republican ticket is the first in four decades in which both members of a major party ticket lost at home.

As The Huffington Post reported in September, the party running mates to lose their own states were Democrats George McGovern of South Dakota and Sargent Shriver of Maryland, who lost to Richard Nixon in 1972.

The dual defeats may not bode well historically for the GOP ticket. President Woodrow Wilson, a former governor of New Jersey, and Vice President Thomas Marshall, a former governor of Indiana, both failed to hold their home states, yet prevailed nationally to win reelection. The year was 1916.

Never before or since has a major party presidential ticket been elected when both candidates lost their home states.

-- Andrea Stone

BullDog · 11-06-2012, 08:50 PM

NBC just called NH for Obama!

Gráinne · 11-06-2012, 08:52 PM

A ballot measure in Florida that would have erased women's right to reproductive "privacy" from the state constitution was defeated on Tuesday by a margin of 56 percent to 44 percent, according to CNN.

The measure, put on the ballot by Republican state legislators, would have empowered the state to enforce abortion restrictions, such as mandatory ultrasound laws, and would have enabled state lawmakers to ban abortion altogether if Roe v. Wade is overturned.

“We commend the voters of Florida for joining what has become a national movement to wholly reject these attacks on reproductive freedom and to demand stronger protections for reproductive rights,” Nancy Northup, president and CEO at the Center for Reproductive Rights, said in a statement. “By preserving women’s reproductive rights under the Florida state constitution, women and families will continue to have all options available to them so they can make the best health care decisions for their circumstances."

-- Laura Bassett

(I cannot wait until this is all over, so we can get back to dating, crushes and whoopie

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11-06-2012, 08:49 PM	#1
Gráinne Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Neither, nada, out of the box Preferred Pronoun?: My name always works Relationship Status: Happy whatever happens Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Little Rock Posts: 1,866 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,119 Thanked 7,391 Times in 1,459 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	I didn't know this: President Barack Obama's victory in Paul Ryan's home state of Wisconsin and his easy win in Mitt Romney's base of Massachusetts means the 2012 Republican ticket is the first in four decades in which both members of a major party ticket lost at home. As The Huffington Post reported in September, the party running mates to lose their own states were Democrats George McGovern of South Dakota and Sargent Shriver of Maryland, who lost to Richard Nixon in 1972. The dual defeats may not bode well historically for the GOP ticket. President Woodrow Wilson, a former governor of New Jersey, and Vice President Thomas Marshall, a former governor of Indiana, both failed to hold their home states, yet prevailed nationally to win reelection. The year was 1916. Never before or since has a major party presidential ticket been elected when both candidates lost their home states. -- Andrea Stone __________________ The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one. ~Erma Bombeck

11-06-2012, 08:50 PM	#2
BullDog Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Dominant Stone Butch Daddy Preferred Pronoun?: She Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: In A Healing Place Posts: 5,371 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 18,160 Thanked 22,637 Times in 4,462 Posts Rep Power: 21474857	NBC just called NH for Obama! __________________ Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. - Rainer Maria Rilke

11-06-2012, 08:52 PM	#3
Gráinne Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Neither, nada, out of the box Preferred Pronoun?: My name always works Relationship Status: Happy whatever happens Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Little Rock Posts: 1,866 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,119 Thanked 7,391 Times in 1,459 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	A ballot measure in Florida that would have erased women's right to reproductive "privacy" from the state constitution was defeated on Tuesday by a margin of 56 percent to 44 percent, according to CNN. The measure, put on the ballot by Republican state legislators, would have empowered the state to enforce abortion restrictions, such as mandatory ultrasound laws, and would have enabled state lawmakers to ban abortion altogether if Roe v. Wade is overturned. “We commend the voters of Florida for joining what has become a national movement to wholly reject these attacks on reproductive freedom and to demand stronger protections for reproductive rights,” Nancy Northup, president and CEO at the Center for Reproductive Rights, said in a statement. “By preserving women’s reproductive rights under the Florida state constitution, women and families will continue to have all options available to them so they can make the best health care decisions for their circumstances." -- Laura Bassett (I cannot wait until this is all over, so we can get back to dating, crushes and whoopie ) __________________ The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one. ~Erma Bombeck